June is Pollinator Month, when we recognize the huge role bees, butterflies, birds, bats & others play in keeping our environment going.

“The decline of butterflies is a factor in the decline of birds and other animals,” Briscoe says. But there’s hope: We can all do things to ensure the butterfly’s future.

“The decline of butterflies is a factor in the decline of birds and other animals,” Briscoe says. But there’s hope: We can all do things to ensure the butterfly’s future.

A butterfly’s mouth is unlike ours, and they do not need teeth since they do not chew solid food up to be digested in their final form. They do have chewing mouth parts as caterpillars.

In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have ...

“If you do purchase plants from a nursery, you might try changing the soil before planting it in the ground,” she said. “That way you are less likely to put plants in the garden which are toxic to the ...

Jeff Wallitsch, of Wallitsch Gardens, said now is a great time to get started because June is pollinator month.

Wild Things columnist Eric Brown is buzzing with enthusiasm about the varied insects to be found during a record sunny spring ...